The talk about blogging at The Lab last night was a lot of fun. I didn't feel nearly as deer in the headlights as I thought I would, though I'm afraid my style of blogging meant I didn't have very helpful answers. (Example: What is your most popular post? My answer: I don't actually know. (It's the bacon cups, duh, Megan.)) Also, I got to buy my blog anniversary present, the Gro Bal Baby.
John was a fabulous host for the evening, and I want to thank him for being so generous as to have the events in his store and allowing people to mill around with food and drinks. Thank you John. Velocity is a fantastic store, online and in real life, and I always find myself trying out lots of furniture while I'm there.
Thanks to Paola (MirrorMirror), Elaine (Decorno), and Mary (Shelterrific and Straight from the Container) for being such wonderful girls. I do hope our different styles and goals for blogging gave a varied perspective. An extra huge thank you to Paola for getting this event started and inviting me to be part of this night.
I got to meet Jessie of Cakespy and Tula of Whorange and a bunch of other people. Thanks so much to everybody for coming last night. I ran into Eliza Truitt, who ran a small photography workshop I gratefully attended last month. If she starts starts having regular classes I'll be sure to let you know, a class focusing on "So, you just bought a DSLR..." would be helpful to so many people I know.
A thanks goes to Dry Soda for providing food and beverages. I've begun associating the flavor of Kumquat soda with an evening of learning new things from intersting people.
The next Lab (June) will feature Kristen Rask, owner of Schmancy and creator of the Plush You event and book, Moxie of Made By Moxie and Hansi of hansigurumi. They'll be talking about the Plush You! show and crafting in general.
The Lab for July will feature Emira Mears and Lauren Bacon talking about their book The Boss of You. If you have or want to run your own business these two have a lot of wisdom to share as they have owned Raised Eyebrow Web Studio for a very long time. I've mentioned this before, but I used to read their site The Soapbox Girls way back in 1999, so I'm very excited they'll be coming through town. (I missed them when they were here on the book tour.)
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See Mary's notes over at Shelterrific.
Here are my notes on what I can recall from what we talked about last night:
